Michigan

[NovaAman]

 

[NovaAman]

sorry, that was just to see if something would work. LOL. This just became my test kitchen. LOL

 

[NovaAman]

Ok... lets see if this works... Trying to make a MI Welcome smiley...

ok... not right yet... sorry...

 

[NovaAman]

UGH! Its supposed to scroll the Welcome to MI Thread... I must be doing a something wrong... Well obviously.

My son made this, asked me to put it up for you all...

 

[b737drvr]

Ok, it has been 28 hours since I have been able to get on the check out BYC and you all gave me something like 10 pages and 99 unread posts. I am never going to be able to keep up with this...

Chicken Grandma - thanks for the advice...Like I said my top three choices would probably be EE, Leghorns, and Deleware. I have never been to TSC Chick Days...do they have different breeds or do you just pick out whatever they have? Do they have them sorted into pullets, straight run, etc?

Raz - I am going to show my chicken ignorance here. You're going to have to slow down w/ those abbreviations. What is BLA and Uggo? What is an egg song? Never heard of Langshan. Are they are brown or white layer?

NovaAman - I am not opposed to starting with larger pullets, but we have 3 kiddos, 5,5, and 18 months...they are expecting chicks...

Bianca - AWESOME PICTURE!!!

Teeville5 & Chickmate - Thanks for the warm welcome

Fuzzybuttlove - I guess it is just about finding a balance in your feeder. It will probably be a little trial and error for me to find out what works best. I plan on putting the feeder and water under the poop board under the roosts...haven not exactly figured out how it is all going to work yet. Looking forward to hopefully starting to work on the coop tomorrow if the weather is nice.

Hillbilly Hen - We tried a garden last year too. I think our seeds germinated and then rotted. We just had so much rain last year. Hopefully we will have better luck this year. I think we are going to try some raised beds. Hopefully that will help w/ the drainage issues as well. Where in GA are you from? We moved up here from the Atlanta suburbs a year ago.

Snowflake - I remember you saying something to me, but I am drawing a blank...something about Leghorns being great layers...hoping to get some of them!

Ok, well I have probably forgotten to acknowledge somebody that told me something. You all are so kind and patient w/ me. Hope you have all had a nice weekend. My weekend is just starting - 4 days off yippee!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Quote: Originally Posted by BobBry Luther Burbank would [have been] ? proud of you.
I just googled him... neat! and to think he made something as famous as the russet potatoe, and all on an elementary education! I myself am just looking to make some garden plants that are also easy on the eyes, and that make the most of our short growing season. Also on my agenda are watermelon and acorn squash. I had some really nice things going last summer, but i lost the squash in due to severe squash bug infestation. One day i had big plants, a couple later nothing but dead stems. For the melon i am trying to decide whether i like pink insides better, or orange. I have seen a few varieties that say they mature in around 80 days?

 

[teeville5]

1Mutt- that chick face down in his food made me chuckle. I am still happily resistant to your charms though by still being unhappily under the weather (darn thing became a sinus infection)

Nova- my oldest DD gave up sledding after many misadventures going down the hills. First time, she broke her arm. Second time, she went down on her belly, hit a bump and flew off and smacked her head on some snow covered ice. Third time, well that darn tree decided to jump in her path. Needless to say, she tends to be a bit accident prone.

We had a small garden last year. Ours peppers, zucchini, cucumbers and squash did fantastic. Our tomatoes, however, while bountiful never turned red. We had lots of nice sized green tomatoes that we couldn't do anything with because they turned bad while we waited for them to get ripe.

 

[M.sue]

Morning everyone......waiting for the sun to come up so I can get my day rolling.

For the melon i am trying to decide whether i like pink insides better, or orange. I have seen a few varieties that say they mature in around 80 days?

Orange inside? Never heard of one or seen one unless you're talking about musk-melon. We plant both but the kids favor the watermelon....seedless!

they turned bad while we waited for them to get ripe.

Our tomatoes didn't do so well last year either. We had tons & tons of them, canned lots but also had a lot of bad ones. Everyone around us, produce farmers included were all fighting some type of blight. Supposedly had to do a lack of calcium in the soil.

 

[Opa]

Woke at 3am check the site and not post. Got back up at 530 put on the coffee and settle back to read all the posts and to my surprise found none. With this cold I didn't have the energy to bother with shoveling any snow and decided to lt God take care of it. Although Hope did shovel some from the front walk and drive before everyone came for dinner yesterday. With near 50 degrees forecasted in the immediate future I'm glad that I didn't bother with it.

 

[NovaAman]

What a crappy wind shoot this morning! Took off with my papers big time.

the forecast is calling for some more bad weather tomorrow evening. Mostly ice issues. Oh joy. I am thinking I officially hate winter. Ok, only cuz I have 158 elderly people who do not take responsibility for their ice removal because their condos management should. Um.. Nice. They do not. I will prevail though. I am woman. I can take it. Lol.

I can no longer tell which chick is my pure faverolle baby...

my silkie mix has a single comb. Pretty good sized. Thinking boy. Poor roger...

Oh, I cracked open the duck egg... That had to be the biggest yolk I have ever seen. Threw fia's egg in with and Jace ate them scrambled. He said it was better than chicken eggs. Dork.